Re: error LNK2022: metadata operation failed - using Templates?

From:
Vinzenz Feenstra <VinzenzFeenstra@community.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:44:56 +0200
Message-ID:
<44BE2948.5060608@community.nospam>

As stated above, the LinkedList files (unmodified) work if I put the
declaration of the linked list and calls to insertAtHead in my Form1.h
file. Why should it make a difference if they are in my City class
instead?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


Hi cyndi,

You cannot put template implementations in a seperated files without
including the seperated file to the header.
The result if you're doing something like this, you have expirienced ;)

So do it in this way:
// LinkedList.h
template <typename Item>
ref class LinkedList
{
private:
     ref class node
     {
     public:
         node() { data = Item(); link=nullptr; }
         node(const Item% init_data, node ^init_link)
         { data = init_data; link = init_link; }
         Item data;
         node ^link;
     };
public:
     typedef node ^NodePtr;
     LinkedList(void)
     {
        head = nullptr;
     }
     void insertAtHead(const Item % entry)
     {
         head = gcnew node(entry, head);
     }
private:
     NodePtr head;
};

And drop the LinkedList.cpp

The rest can be keeped.

And you'll see it will work ;)

Regards,
Vinzenz

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